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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.. American novelist poet short story writer art critic and literary critic


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Quote Left The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. Quote Right
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Quote Left We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. Quote Right
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Quote Left Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. Quote Right
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Quote Left America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. Quote Right
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Quote Left Lawrence had done it in a way, and Joyce. But I think it's an important thing to do now and then, to describe the sex act as our descent, or adventure, into a primordial or strange world, having very little to do with how we look in suits or what our educations have been. It's a well of darkness, as it were, that leaves you refreshed. Quote Right
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